The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-16

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1 Vickers foundry in Sheffield, England on
the 9th, the casting exploded, killing four
men on the spot and injuring many
others. The buildings of the establish
ment were more or less shattered.
/ THE residence of Cardinal Gibbons in
| Baltimore, Md, was robbed the 4th Of
two valuable rings, one of which was a
/ present from Pope Leo. They were stolen
from drawer in the library, the lock of
which the thief cut out. No clew to the
thief has been obtained.
FIVE men were killed by an explosion Of
naphtha on the schooner War Eagle at
| Boston, on the 7th.
/ ONE hundred and sixteen of the victims
Of the theater fire at Exeter, England,
were buried en- the 7th.
/ NEAR Ceredo, W. Va, on the night of
the 9th, an old couple named Bush were
shot by three assassins for purposes OF
robbery.
THE machine shops of the Barren Fork
] Coal Company at Somerset, KY, were
burned on the 7th. Loss will exceed $780,
600.
A FIRE started in residence in New
burg, Ont, on the 9th, aud spread to the
business portion of the village which was
soon entirely destroyed. The loss will
reach S2J0,000; insurance not known. Mr..
j. Wells was probably fatally burned.
FIRE started on the morning of the 7th
! in Joseph Jackson's saw mill, a part of the
/ Grant Locomotive Works building at Pat
! erson, n. J., and soon communicated to
| every part of the building. OF the Grant
/ Works nothing remains but the erecting
/ shop, the foundry and part of the new
machine shop. The loss is estimated at
/ S150,0O0, and six hundred hands are thrown
| out Of employment.
] AT three O'Clock on the morning of the
! Sth Jacob Albiec, a well-to-do citizen, of
/ Omaha, Neb., shot his wife and then killed
| himself. The wife was shot in the right
1 breast, the ball going through her body and
/ lodging under the skin below the right
| shoulder. She was alive at last accounts.
| JOHN GALE, aged forty, was struck on
the temple by base ball while crossing a
4 field in the suburbs of Brooklyn, on the Sth,
/ where some boys were playing and died
/ the same night Charles Miller, whe
/ batted the ball, has been arrested.
THE Hotel Arlington, at SaegertOwn,
/ Pa, six miles north of Meadville, erected
last spring at a cost of $250, 900, was en-.
! tirely destroyed by fire on the morning of
/ the Sth. The fire broke out in the kitchen
/ The guests, twenty five in number, barely
| escaped, saving nothing. The house con
/ tanned sixty-fve rooms.
/ DURING the tornado in the Schoharie val
/ ley, N. Y, on the 7th, several persons were
! injured. Hop yards were devastated,
1 crops were ruined and some stock killed
! Fifty barns were unroofed, and Alfred G.
/ Gifford's house at SLuthborne was de
molished.
/ A DISPATCH from London, Ont, says
| 'Tsrael Lucas, the defaulting treasurer oi
! Auglaize County, o., who absconded Au
/ gust p last with S31 900, is supposed to be
in this city with his second wife, who fec
with him to Canada, and Detective JOIN
| 7. Norris is here on their trail"
HENRY BECKER, aged seventy, was shot
and fatally wounded at Shenandoah, Pa.
on the Sth, by Nicholas Knebels. The lat
! ter had been paying unwelcome attention
| to Becker's daughter, and was ordered out
| of the house, but refused to go, and during
q scuffie Becker was shot. There is not
| much hope of Beczer's recovery.
| @JOHN THOMAS Ross, known as the blacI
! "burker," was hanged on the 9th at Balti
more, Md.
| A CONFLICT occurred on the 9th between
a large number of Irishmen and constabu
larry at Mitchellstown, Ireland, and severa
| persons were killed and many wounded.
ALL the Bald Knobbers at jefferson
City, No, except one, who jumped hi
bond and fed, went into court on the 9tl
and submitted to a verdict of guilty.
COLONEL THOMAS o. SULLY, aged seven
ty, for many years chief Inspector of tn
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, committed
suicide on the 9th by drowning.
JAS. HERMES, a German, aged fifty
eight years, shot himself in the temple OF
the 9th at his home in Broom street
Newark, N. j. He had been in New Yorl
for two days on a spree. The physician
say he can not live.
THE coroner who investigated the deatl
from poisoning of Mrs. Mcintyre, o
Chilli, o., has entirely exonerated hel
husband from blame, as he also cam
near dying from drinking from the SAM
pot of coffee. The verdict was deatl
from poison administered by unknown
parties.
SPADE SUNSHINE was hanged at Table
quah, l. T., on the 9th in the Nation
al prison yard. He was convicted o
the murder of Long John in the Sequoyal
district last Christmas night. He shOwet
no sign of fear and was nervy to the last
A FIRE starting in the cellar of Timothy
Brothers dry goods store the publ
/ square of Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th, de
stroyed both buildings, each three storie
high. The stock of goods, valued $4,000
was half destroyed, and the remainde
badly damaged by fire and water. Insure,
for $4,000.
WHILE Peter Rentz, a stonecutter, form
erly resident of St. Louis, was at wor
in an excavation in Kansas City on tn
9Th, a stone weighing several tons fel
| AIOlu dnONH On uliItf CRUSHING MN INTO
shRpeless mass and killing him instantly
THOMAS KELLY, Michael Grove and an
other man named Walters were burie,
alive on the evening of the 9th, in tn
new aqueduct at North Workers, n. Y
The earth above caved in on them. The.
lie under 190 feet of earth, and their is n
, possible chance of their having escape,
instant death.
WHILE ascending a flight of stairs in tn
{ hotel at Hurricane, a small town in Put
nam County, ". Va, on the 9th, Rev
William TuIly fell. A pistol in his pocke
; was discharged, and he was fatally shot
The bullet entered the body near the hear
and he died in few minutes. He wa
thirty years old.
THE railroad shops, store-rooms an
machinery of the Chicago, st. Paul (
Milwaukee road at Tankton, Oak, wer
burned at midnight of tho 9th, flame
catching from an engine that was beinI
cleaned. Two locomotives were damage,
to the extent of 5000. Total loss, 500 600
, | insured.
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